Essential Hip-Hop Records on Vinyl

I don't know how Stones Throw are going to top this. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-ab...

Although Mac Miller started working on Circles soon after Swimming, his tragic, untimely passing in September of 2018 didn't allow the beloved rapp...

Now on deluxe colored vinyl! For me, buying MF Doom records is one of the few activities that captures that feeling of refuge found in thrift store...

DONALD GLOVER'S 2013 BREAKOUT SOPHOMORE LP. This is the album that transformed the Donald from a prime-time television actor with a little passion ...

NOW THAT OUTKAST IS DONE, WE HAVE TO LOOK TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION THAT SPEAKS THE TRUTH. Leading the pack of said younger generation is young Ken...

I really lost my shit when I first heard this. Heads in the know tell you that this is their best, most complete album. No weaklings, just solid be...

Double LP pressing of Check Your Head. Best Beasties' album ever? I guess you can debate it, but there's no arguing that this one is definitely up ...

By special request, Stones Throw has pressed up copies of Dilla's beat sketch masterpiece Donuts with the "smile" cover, originally used for the CD...

2011 was huge for The Weeknd. He released three mixtapes —House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence—which in 2012 were remastered & co...

New Kung Fu Kenny!!! DAMN. is the name of the album, and damn, Kendrick Lamar has done it again. 4 albums in, K.Dot... Rather, KUNG FU KENNY (Kid C...

Mos' classic full length solo debut, back on official double vinyl! Black On Both Sides is one of the crown jewels in the Rawkus catalog - an esse...

Before To Pimp A Butterfly, there was Aquemini. On their third album, Outkast steer the soulful boom-bap of their first two records further south, ...

NOW THAT OUTKAST IS DONE, WE HAVE TO LOOK TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION THAT SPEAKS THE TRUTH. Leading the pack of said younger generation is young Ken...

The One Man Army Ason has become one of the most misunderstood and maligned artists of our time. All you got to do is give the man a chance cuz he'...

Louis Kevin Celestin AKA Kaytranada was introduced to FL Studio when he was 15. In 2012, the Montreal-based producer posted his remix of Janet Jack...

DEBUT ALBUM FROM RAPPER / ACTOR DONALD "I LOVE MIGOS" GLOVER. Preceded by 2010’s Culdesac mixtape and 2011’s EP, Camp is the first offical full-len...

What do you follow up Illmatic, one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, with? For Nas, the answer was It Was Written, the Queensbridge MC's...

Back on double vinyl! A daunting task reviewing this record, but here's a try. Not to get all textbook, but 93 Til Infinity is one of finest embodi...

Official pressing of The Weeknd's sophomore mixtape! By this point in the Weeknd's burgeoning career we were started to get a better picture of the...

Malibu comes by way of Venice and Compton, and it is the latter that really broke out the Oxnard triple-threat (he sings, raps, and produces) forme...

This official Bad Boy and Rhino reissue of Ready To Die is obviously a much welcome release - finally making one of the greatest hip hop albums of ...

It’s hard to think of any other rapper with as many classic records under their belt at the age of 24 as The Notorious BIG. The epic and eerie trip...

Earl Sweatshirt made a name for himself when he went missing. His buzz was EVERYWHERE. He was not. What happened to him? The word is his moms was c...

Lab exclusivo! Celebrating ten years of DJ Rashad's full-length masterpiece, newly reissued on Partisan Records with refreshed gold foil stamped co...

Finally, the legit LP reissue of the classic third De La Soul album. It's one of those rare records you don't even have to think about skipping tra...

Finally repressed! Here's our original review circa early 2000 (sku: hh-009!) When this came out everybody I know was feelin' exactly the same way ...

The return of the Canadian crooner. The former OVO affiliate that once was very much behind the scenes grabbing attention with a three part mixtape...

Finally reissued! In the grand scheme of things, 10 years isn't really THAT long for a record to be out of print... but for an album as seminal as ...

Finally, El-P's explosive solo debut gets a proper vinyl reissue! Originally released on the Def Jux label in 2002, the album saw El Producto pushi...

"Formed in 1999 by acclaimed hip-hop producers Dan the Automator (Gorillaz, Dr. Octagon, Deltron 3030) and Prince Paul (Stetsasonic, De La Soul, Gr...

Isn't it cool when a group you really like comes out after a long hiatus with a really dope record? That's what happened with De La Soul on Stakes ...

Vaudeville Villain back in print! Fans of the metal faced villain probably already know this album inside and out, but for those who slept on it, h...

Triple black vinyl edition! Call it a phenomenon. Atmosphere, an enigmatic frontman and one of the best producers to come from the of Mid-West scen...

It's bigger than hip-hop! Dead Prez' politically-charged 2000 debut full length gets the Get On Down reissue treatment. Lets Get Free offers politi...